Tim Gaskin is the Cyber Pad's second featured Artist of the week. For more information on Tim, you can click on his link below and that will take you to his website. It's super super and there's a lot more art on Tim's web site for your eyes to feast on.
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TIm Gaskin's Art BIOGRAPHY
Colorist and pop artist Tim Gaskin was raised in the multi-cultural San Francisco during the seventies and eighties and was influenced by liberal politics, the sexual revolution, television, HIV/AIDS pandemic, local art, and dance music. Gaskin began painting at fourteen when he was living on his own. At that time he used his art to escape from reality and to tune out the environment around him. Today Gaskin is using his art to transform and enhance the environment of others.
The San Francisco Chronicle called Gaskin's work "inspired pop art, each seeking the balance of nature and flow of energy with just the right mix", and "Gaskin's paintings are colorful abstract works".
Gaskin continues the Pop Art Movement begun in the Sixties by the late Andy Warhol. Many pop artists explored glamour icons of Marylyn, Elvis, and even Jackie O; Gaskin similarly explores images of glamorized beauty in his recent series of portraits of idealized western commercial female beauties. Gaskin's women however are all adorned by nature, being a wreath, or halo of flowers, which adorn their heads. This brings into play a traditional West Coast conflict of pure natural beauty, in opposition to the stylization of the clearly made-up women. However in these paintings the "natural" beauty is integrated with the commercial feel and look of the paintings. Gaskin's paintings strength are also routed in the bold but balance color scheme and graphic construction. The paintings read like beautiful "supermodels". One could envision them on billboards, or in a fashion magazine. His colors pop bolder and brighter than the 60's pop artists.
In the 80's Pop Artist, like Basquiat and Keith Haring as "Graffiti" artist took their pop images from the street, Gaskin reaches a little higher toward, Vogue, Hollywood, and Superstardom. However the colors remain chosen from the palette of artists like Stuart Davis, Rupert Garcia and Gilbert and George who always felt their work should be bigger, bolder and booming.
Gaskin's heavenly beauties are unnamed glamour queens, as natural in their classic beauty as the flowers in their hair. The paintings suggest that what was once high gloss commercial glamour has become classical elegance, like the pure lilies, sunflowers and roses paired with each type of beauty. The paintings feel right for the time classical, beautiful, and simple; but still electric, over the top and very pop.
Media
Acrylic on stretched canvas
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Cyber Space Art Shows
Dec 19th 2003 Jimmymcgill.com
Dec 30th 2003 TimGaskin.com |
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